Nontrival cosmological constant in brane worlds with unorthodox lagrangians

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Förste, Stefan ^a   Nilles, Hans Peter ^a   Zavala, Ivonne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

dark energy theory; extra dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961233300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/07/007     Document Type: Review

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